I am receiving bulk mail that has a e-mail address of my account but I have not sent it. How can this be?

Might these people be sending it to others and they might think it is my e-mail? How can I stop this from happening?

I am receiving bulk mail that has a e-mail address of my account but I have not sent it. How can this be?
It's called "spoofing".





Spoofing is the "forgery" of an address, to hide the identity of the sender, and is usually done by an Automatic Spamming system, that blindly and randomly, runs through addresses in sequence.


It's not actually coming from or thru your account.


One type that's called "Self Spamming"--(go figure)--appears to be coming "from" and going "to" the same address.





Anti-spam experts say----At this time, there's nothing you can do, except delete them. They are a nuisance, but harmless and don't last long.


Don't spam them--you'd only be spamming your own address.
Reply:It is annoying, but meanwhile Spammers know how to make it look like you are the one who is sending such mails to yourself. The same mails sent to somebody else will have their address. Got some of them myself, but since I know that I don't send myself any junk mail, I just delete them. As far as I know, there is no other way yet to deal with such crap.